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Board introduces new director of safety and security and schedules emergency operations plan review for March
Summary
Saline Area Schools introduced Dan Carrick as its new director of safety and security. Carrick described his law-enforcement and school-safety background; the board agreed to present an updated emergency operations plan in March and to consider a policy change to make reviews annual.
The Saline Area Schools Board of Education introduced Dan Carrick as the district’s new director of safety and security during its Jan. 14 regular meeting.
Carrick summarized more than two decades in policing and campus safety work. “I worked for two different police agencies and I retired from both,” Carrick said, describing service at the City of Westland Police Department (nearly 22 years) and later roles at Eastern Michigan University and the University of Michigan. He said his work included investigations, SWAT leadership and responsibility for 9-1-1 systems and campus emergency planning.
Carrick said he intends to combine policing response capabilities with school-based prevention work: “When you can put that together with the other side of the coin in school safety, which is what educators have been doing for a long time — working in social emotional learning, anti-bullying, behavior threat assessment — you got to put both sides together to be able to have a complete program.”
Board members asked whether Carrick could prepare a report on the district’s emergency operations plan (EOP) in time for a March review; Carrick said yes. The board voted to postpone formal review of the EOP until March and directed the policy committee to consider updating Policy 8402 to require annual EOP review instead of the current biannual cycle. The board recorded the motion to postpone and to forward the policy question to the policy committee; the motion passed by voice vote.
Carrick said his early priorities include updating the district’s EOP to the state’s newer template and presenting it to the board. “One thing that is on my early plate is our emergency operations plan,” he said, and noted the district is aiming to have a draft ready for the board in March.
Carrick also recounted prior work with school districts and national school-safety efforts: at the University of Michigan he supported the Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention and Prevention initiatives, working with districts statewide on strategies for K–12 safety.
No formal policy change took effect at the meeting; board members assigned the policy question to the policy committee for consideration and scheduled the EOP presentation for March.
